57 min
Melanie Kehr – KfW – Fighting Corona with agile, trust and close collaboration between business & IT CIONET
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In this #LeadershipDeepDive episode Melanie Kehr, CIO & COO of KfW, talks with Hendrik Deckers about the challenges she and her team had to face when the Corona hit in 2020 and how the digital agenda they had introduced earlier helped to implement the Corona Support Program. Melanie talks about agile transformation and the three success factors:
✅ Platform
✅ Agile way of working
✅ Cloud technology
Synergy between these 3 elements enabled KfW to cope with the crisis and support the government in the distribution of funds.
“We need to push the change also through the whole bank. And that's what I need to do in my role, but also my team”, Melanie says and stresses that IT should be a change agent.
Every year CIONET nominates top CxOs as finalists of the European Digital Leader of the Year. Melanie represents Germany in the Finance category.
Table of contents:
01:06 | Introduction and Melanie Kehr’s background
02:55 | About KfW
05:22 | KfW as transformative bank supporting the economy
06:44 | Drivers for change
09:27 | From waterfall to scrum
16:29 | Corona Support Program
24:35 | Platform as a connector between KfW and its financial partners
28:03 | Role of cloud
30:53 | App developed in 12 days to help the customers with the loan procedure
33:51 | IT organization at KfW
39:30 | Melanie’s role as CIO
43:09 | Melanie’s management & leadership style
48:00 | Melanie’s mentors
50:07 | Melanie’s core values and the best thing that has ever happened to her
51:09 | The worst thing that has ever happened to Melanie
54:47 | Personal mantra
55:56 | Advice for people starting out
In this #LeadershipDeepDive episode Melanie Kehr, CIO & COO of KfW, talks with Hendrik Deckers about the challenges she and her team had to face when the Corona hit in 2020 and how the digital agenda they had introduced earlier helped to implement the Corona Support Program. Melanie talks about agile transformation and the three success factors:
✅ Platform
✅ Agile way of working
✅ Cloud technology
Synergy between these 3 elements enabled KfW to cope with the crisis and support the government in the distribution of funds.
“We need to push the change also through the whole bank. And that's what I need to do in my role, but also my team”, Melanie says and stresses that IT should be a change agent.
Every year CIONET nominates top CxOs as finalists of the European Digital Leader of the Year. Melanie represents Germany in the Finance category.
Table of contents:
01:06 | Introduction and Melanie Kehr’s background
02:55 | About KfW
05:22 | KfW as transformative bank supporting the economy
06:44 | Drivers for change
09:27 | From waterfall to scrum
16:29 | Corona Support Program
24:35 | Platform as a connector between KfW and its financial partners
28:03 | Role of cloud
30:53 | App developed in 12 days to help the customers with the loan procedure
33:51 | IT organization at KfW
39:30 | Melanie’s role as CIO
43:09 | Melanie’s management & leadership style
48:00 | Melanie’s mentors
50:07 | Melanie’s core values and the best thing that has ever happened to her
51:09 | The worst thing that has ever happened to Melanie
54:47 | Personal mantra
55:56 | Advice for people starting out
57 min